Can't defeat Bagud!

[Vulture]

weapons != items. In my first game I got at least 5 weapons providing at least +3 atk (not counting dragon slayer sword and kerus sword). Just count all those dwarven hammers. I think there are (along with the quest item) 3 different dwarven hammers out there giving 3atk + either 1 dwarven morale or +3 atk to dwarves each. And these are by far not the only weapons of this quality. I wasn't talking regalia/artifact. Indeed there are practically none providing +3 atk. But I was talking weapons anyways.

[Openingknight]

I take your points, but I still think this game is very weak on quests. They aren't difficult and usually involve going between a couple of characters delivering messages, with maybe a little battle thrown in for good measure.

I guess I was spoilt in that I was used to the older Might and Magic series....some of the quests you reall had to think about, and your choice of solutions really affected the gameplay. The other frustrating thing about this game is the lack of adventure spells, movement around the world is tedious and time consuming.

The Dirgible graphics are fun the first time, but just frustrating and a waste of time after that! Same for the ship to "Freedom Isles". Why not have a option to bypass the animation? It all looks pretty but it makes for tedious gameplay!

Anyway, I went back to an earlier saved game and adopted a slightly different levelling up strategy to defeat Haas, but I won't play this again unless the tedious travel is sorted! It's a good game, and in my view a positive step towards the earlier RPG/strategy games, in the longrun it isn't graphics that make make a good game (anyone can do that these days), but the gaming quality and complexity. I hope this series continues and improves upon itself!

[Elwin]

Just hit Esc button on your keyboard to skip animation

[Openingknight]

That would certainly help!!....although I still dislike the fact that you can't go anywhere without going back to the point of arrival. Just a few adventuremap spells would make this game much more enjoyable (for me!!), I know there are many that are happy to go through the process of getting back to somewhere, I just find that a bit of waste of time...especially when you have to do it a hundred times or more!

I know these are silly niggles, and I can put up with it in a game which is more complex, but this is not a complex game and the lack of adventure map movement spells is annoying!